According to reports from daily independent, former Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu have been asked by Some members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State, to withdraw from the governorship race as he would not receive their support in the election.
The group, under the aegis of the of Ebonyi PDP Stakeholders Forum, advised Chukwu to see the handwriting on the wall and turn down his ambition because the electorates in the state were already aggrieved on the way and manner he emerged as consensus candidate without consulting any of the nationalities in the state that have their various aspirants.
The call was the second in the series after the Second Republic senator from Abakaliki zone and one of the governorship aspirants, Offia Nwali, had told Chukwu to continue with his national drive for the fight against Ebola virus and “not to mess himself up with the situation in the state politics”.
It was gathered that four members of the PDP caucus in the House of Representatives had also distanced themselves from Chukwu’s adoption, insisting that there should be a level playing ground in the conduct of the election.
The Forum, through a statement signed by its Coordinator, Mathias Igboke, urged the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP to verify from the various aspirants whether due process and level playing ground were given before the purported adoption of Chukwu by a section of Old Abakaliki political bloc.
The coordinator said: “we should discuss with one another, with those in power and those not in power until we reach a consensus. If we have not reached a consensus, we have not solved the problems, and consensus is not by force or pressure, it is by willing participation of all sides.
“The adoption was wrong. The best thing for Chukwu is to realise the situation and withdraw. Right now, he is a world figure, needed by the whole world. And he has not completed that assignment”.
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